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GENERAL STATEMENT OF FODDER CROPS. 



In addition to the turnip plots which yielded 299 bushels ; 3 acres of turnips yielded 

 800 bushels per acre, and one- third acre plot produced 360 bushels, making a total of 

 3,059 bushels. 



The mangel plots yielded 227 bushels, and § of an acre yielded 360 bushels, 

 making a total of 587 bushels of mangels. To this may be added the yield from the 

 carrot plots, 108 bushels and also that from the plots of sugar beets, 71 bushels. This 

 makes 3,825 bushels as the total amount of roots harvested. 



One and one-quarter acre of horse beans produced 11 tons 250 pounds, equal to 9 

 tons per acre ; \ acre of sunflowers, 2 tons 712 pounds ; 2^ acres of corn yielded 7 tons 

 per acre, and |- acre 1 ton 1,250 pounds, equal to 13 tons per acre. This together with 

 the product of corn plots of 10 tons 360 pounds, makes a total of 42 tons 1,572 pounds, 

 all of which was put into the silo. 



PEEPARATION OF THE LAND FOR THE FIELD TURNIPS. 



The field turnips were grown on land the previous crop of which was oats. The 

 land was ploughed in the fall. In the spring it was again ploughed, worked up and 

 drilled into rows 28 inches apart. Into these drills barn-yard manure at the rate of 

 thirty 20-bushel cart loads per acre was put, and a fertilizer at the rate of 300 pounds 

 per acre, made of 150 pounds of complete fertilizer, and 150 pounds of bone meal mixed 

 together, which was sown along on top of the manure, and the whole covered. 



PREPARATION OF LAND FOR THE FIELD CORN. 



The land on which the field corn was planted was in timothy and clover hay the 

 two previous seasons. This was ploughed in the spring and fertilizer at the rate of 250 

 pounds per acre used. This fertilizer consisted of 125 pounds of bone meal and 

 125 pounds of complete fertilizer mixed together. The corn was sown with the grain 

 drill, in rows 3 feet apart. The fertilizer was applied at the same time by allowing all 

 the pipes of the fertilizer attachment of the seed drill to run ; thus the fertilizer was 

 sown over the whole ground, being drilled in, as when sowing grain, in rows 6 inches 

 apart. 



One strip of this land of \ acre was manured on the sod, the previous fall at the 

 rate of thirty 20-bushel cartloads of barn-yard manure per acre. On the land so treated 

 the yield of corn per acre was 1 3 tons, and that which received no barn-yard manure 

 bnt treated similar in every other respect, yielded only 7 tons per acre. 



PREPARATION OF THE LAND FOR THE HORSE BEANS AND SUNFLOWERS. 



The land on which the English horse beans were sown was in timothy and clover the 

 two previous years. Barn-yard manure at the rate of forty 20-bushel cart loads per 

 acre, was ploughed under in the fall of 1896. This was worked up in the spring, and 

 the beans sown in rows 3 feet apart. 



The sunflowers were also sown, in rows 3 feet apart, on land adjoining that used 

 for the beans, which received similar treatment. 



MILLET. 



Four varieties of millet were sown 12 th June in one-fortieth acre plots. The land 

 was in timothy and clover the previous year. It was ploughed in the fall of 1896. 

 The millet made a good strong growth and was cut for feed 30th August. The stock 

 did not eat it readily. I do not consider it as valuable as oats, pease and vetches for 

 feeding stock. 



